New Movie Titles - Feb. 26

Available at Clemens Library:

Charmed all the seasons
The Big Sell Out
May Justice Be Done
The Debt Of Dictators
Mumbai Massacre
Goya In Bordeaux
La Celestina
Francesco
Senseless
Donkey Skin
Coco Before Chanel
A Serious Man

Moves at Alcuin Library:

Mulholland Falls
The Union
Pontypool
Everybody’s Fine
The Box
Crude
The Universe: The Complete Fourth Season
Bliss
The Vicious Kind
Flame and Citron
The Informant!
The Damned United
The September Issue
50 Cent: The New Breed
Taking Change
Into the Storm
Paris 36
Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death
Fox and Friends

Spring Break -- Library Hours

Friday, Feb. 26: 8:00am-4:30pm

Saturday, Feb. 27 - Sunday, Feb. 28: CLOSED

Monday, March 1 - Friday, March 5: 8:00am-4:30pm

Saturday, March 6: CLOSED

Sunday, March 7: 6:00pm-12midnight

The BAC Music Library will close at 4:00pm Friday, Feb. 26th and open for regular academic hours, Monday, March 8th at 9:00am.

Nixon's Papers

On January 11, 2010 the Nixon Library opened additional materials from the Nixon Presidential Materials. Scans of nearly one hundred documents that represent the variety of subjects and wealth of historical information are included in this new release.

The documents are from file segments for the White House Special Files, Staff Member & Office Files; White House Central Files, Staff Member & Office Files; and the National Security Council File series, including the Henry A. Kissinger Telephone Conversation Transcripts (Telcons).


(Image from msnbc.com)


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Historic American Newspapers

The Library of Congress has added illustrated newspaper pages from 1910 to the LC Flickr photostream. The New-York Tribune Illustrated Supplement section, printed on Sundays, published images of signature events of the year, including: planning for the arrival of the Titanic, the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, imaginative illustrations of future technologies, and much more.

The Chronicling America site from the Library of Congress is enhancing access to America's historic newspapers. This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

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The African-American Migration Experience

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience presents a new interpretation of African-American history, one that focuses on the self-motivated activities of peoples of African descent to remake themselves and their worlds. Of the thirteen defining migrations that formed and transformed African America, only the transatlantic slave trade and the domestic slave trades were coerced, the eleven others were voluntary movements of resourceful and creative men and women, risk-takers in an exploitative and hostile environment. Their survival skills, efficient networks, and dynamic culture enabled them to thrive and spread, and to be at the very core of the settlement and development of the Americas. Their hopeful journeys changed not only their world and the fabric of the African Diaspora but also the Western Hemisphere."

Images, text, maps and educational materials can be found on the site.


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New Movie Titles - Feb. 19

For Alcuin Library:

Beloved
Clare and Francis
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
Bronson
A Serious Man
True Grit
The Song of Sparrows
Camille Claudel
Faust
Fassbinder's BRD Trilogy (The Marriage of Maria Braun / Veronika Voss / Lola) - Criterion Collection (1982)
Revanche
More Than a Game
Black Dynamite
Hunger
Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie
Beautiful Losers
Heartbreak Ridge
Lil Wayne: Takin’ Over Hip Hop


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Social Media and Young Adults

"Two Pew Internet Project surveys of teens and adults reveal a decline in blogging among teens and young adults and a modest rise among adults 30 and older. Even as blogging declines among those under 30, wireless connectivity continues to rise in this age group, as does social network use. Teens ages 12-17 do not use Twitter in large numbers, though high school-aged girls show the greatest enthusiasm for the application." Read the complete report or summary of the findings.

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Footnote.com

Footnote helps you find and share historic documents. They are able to bring many never-before-seen historic documents through their unique partnerships with The National Archives, the Library of Congress and other institutions. Over 62 million pictures and documents from the Vietnam War, Civil Rights, Holocaust and much more.

(Picture is of Miss USA Dianna Lynn Bates entertains troops in Vietnam from

Track the U.S. Budget

"With the release of the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2011 budget plan this week, the Kaiser Foundation launched a budget tracker to provide current information on the status of U.S. funding for key global health programs throughout the Congressional budget and appropriations process.

The tracker includes a detailed breakdown of each major account as presented in the President’s budget request and will be updated as needed as the appropriations bills proceed through Congress." For more information go to the Kaiser Foundation.


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